I think he was looking for a download that had just the emulator without the SDK. I don't think anyone has the emulator for any android without the SDK. Luckily, the SDK (which comes with the emulator) is FREE and it's only about 150MB.
But... it's too early for that. It think this 4" screen DSi is probably just that: DSi with a 4" screen. My dad and my uncle both like the DS (particularly chess and puzzle games on it) but they have trouble seeing the tiny things on the tiny screen, the larger screen would definitely help. They should call this the "Geezer Edition DSi".
Good luck putting 53kWh of energy into a battery in "a matter of minutes".
Technically, Lithium batteries can be charged to 80% capacity in only a half hour. The main reason for the Roadster's slow charging is that household plugs can't output more than 1800 Watts for a standard socket, at that rate it would take 30 hours to charge the Roadster.
If you wanted to charge it within 1 hour, you would need a 53000W power source, that's about 240Amps@220Volt, 480Amps@110Volts. Considering that the main circuit breaker to my house is rated 200Amps, I could never charge the Tesla at my house in 1 hour, even if it had super capacitors or whatever else you wanted.
If you want to charge it in "a matter of minutes", say 10 minutes, you would need a 318000Watt power source. If you wanted to charge your car in 3 minutes, you would need a megawatt power supply... for that you'd need a dedicated power station to supply this kind of power otherwise the whole city would have a brownout every time some prick decides to recharge his Tesla. I don't know about where you live, but there aren't dedicated electric stations that can supply a megawatt of power anywhere near my house.
So: batteries? supercapacitors? ultracapacitors? it doesn't matter the least bit if you don't have the power infrastructure to charge it.
Can you imagine what would happen if other markets went the way of OSS and FSF ideals? You'd get a few finished products and a lot of half-baked, half-finished products. You'll have to supply your own containers when shopping for soup at the market, and provide your botulism test because the kitchen hadn't gotten around to it yet. You go to buy a car, but someone decided to break with convention and try a new brake design. He's delivered the car in a.5 Alpha and makes a small note that the brake fluid/master cylinder/wheel interface isn't ready yet.
Yeah... I'm so glad everything in today's world is all finished products. The version of Windows is final, never needs patches or fixes. Since everything is so nicely tested cars never have recalls for things like spontaneous fires or fuel leaking. I am so glad when you go shopping you can be 100% confident that the meat you just bought has no harmful gut bacteria since the slaughterhouse would surely not chop open the intestines of the animal while butchering it. The industry does such a good of regulating itself behind closed doors that if we saw how well they operate internally we couldn't possibly find a single way of improving it, because the system that a dozen infallible geniuses think up is a billion times better than what you and I and a billion other people could ever devise.
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Wake up! THE MAN is as fallible as anybody else. Just because it's open doesn't mean it's unfinished or half-baked.
It's the cost of the cell phone network. Obviously they couldn't get a cheap data plan in Europe so they have to disable things that use bandwidth and charge more for the necessary parts. There's no mystery here, there's no book tax, it's not the cost of converting from anything. It's just European cell phone companies rip off Amazon just because they can.
Hey, that's exactly what I do. In HL2 near the beginning when you're in the lab, you can throw things around and play with the little desktop teleporter machine. And it actually works: you can put an object on one side and press the button, things spin and presto, the object is on side B. So I tried sitting on side A, and hit the button to see if it would teleport me... and poof, sparks came out of the machine and it started smoking. The teleportation machine broke.
Sure, they do a goob job integrating story and game, but they also make the room full of fun things to play with when you don't want to sit half an hour waiting for NPC's to finish yacking around for people with ADD like me.
There are other games that integrate the story into the game non-invasively, such as System Shock (1 and 2), where the story is told via notes/recordings made by the survivors.
What I can't stand though, is when I have an out of body experience during the game where the camera flies out of my body and I see my character myself other than through a mirror, and my character does things without my approval. It's absolutely the worst when my character starts to speak. I like how in HL,Doom etc the character never EVER utters a single word. I can't stand games where the character feels it necessary to comment on what's going on... like in Duke3D when Duke starts to blurt out things about how he's here to kick ass and chew gum and he's out of gum. I don't care if he's out of gum, I'm supposed to be him, why is he talking for me? That takes the immersion out completely and turns the game into a parody, I'm no longer me, no longer alone in the alien ship, instead some loud mouth jerk is here with me and I'm just a spectator because the character has a life of its own. It just ruins the game's atmosphere imho.
True, Doom wasn't true 3D, but it looked 3D enough to fool anyone who didn't know difference between polygon rendering and raycasting (most people), and at the time computers just weren't fast enough to render a 3D polygon world anyway, so they did the best they could on the technology they had.
But Doom was the first to bring that 3D look, with inertia, gun movement, enemies that turned on each other, lots of blood and gore, 2-4 player multiplayer deathmatch+coop over serial/modem/ipx, all of with user editable content. Each of those features had been around before one way or another, but never all of them together. Doom defined the FPS genre.
Nothing creates a shortage faster than the word "shortage".
Johnny Carson was joking about a toilet paper shortage on NBC's Tonight Show, and Johnny's simple joke about shortage indeed created a very real toilet paper shortage that lasted three weeks. fact
If a comedian can have that much impact, one can only imagine what would happen if a more reliable source like New York Times went around announcing there was a shortage.
people who switched are not going back to MS anytime soon
Not true, I used several PCs running MacOS at my friend's lab. The interface is nice and cute and Apple's PC hardware is very aesthetically pleasing, but that's just the looks, and overall it's just not vastly different despite your enthusiastic claims that it is. Same shit with different cloak. I didn't like it any more than XP, which I also dislike but at least it has less of a cult following comprised of hippies brainwashed with religious zealotry and bigotry.
I agree... people who know the real life implications of the difference between static friction and dynamic friction know how to get their car out of an uncontrollable slide back into control, avoiding an accident.
I've seen plenty of idiots who slam on gas/brake on icy road and send their automobile spinning/slipping/crashing and creating dangerous situation.
I completely agree, Apple has the advantage of having all of their hardware being the same, makes development easier, and users don't have to worry about different requirements. Other platforms like Android or Windows forces you think different, not a familiar concept in Apple land despite the fact that it's their main slogan.
Because fractional reserve banking itself is fraud, not much different than counterfeiting: it hurts us all and puts the profits in the hands of a few.
At some point in time someone somewhere said: "Gee, I wish I could lend out money I don't have and collect interest on money I don't have." and fractional reserve banking was born. It's all one big fraud.
Hey, why is that marked troll? He's right, if it's a fixed fine you might as well just say that government is going to tax each instance of lobbying the reviewers by $11000. If your overall profits exceeded the fine greatly, that's not a fine, that's just a tax on your profits. And that's assuming you get caught every time!
They sell fresh produce, it is only logical that they have some kind of fruit for their logo. It makes a lot more sense for company selling fruit to use fruit for logo as opposed to pc manufacturer using fruit for their logo. This reminds me of how Johnson&Johnson sued The American Red Cross for using the red cross symbol... that's RIGHT! The symbol of red cross on white background is a registered trademark so Johnson&Johnson sued The American Red Cross (the non-profit organization known for and named after a red cross) for using a red cross.
How long before some asshole trademarks the christian cross, the crescent moon and the star of David and sues everyone?
They don't want Apple users to get confused and buy groceries instead of computers. Last thing you need is an Apple trying to plug in a tomato into the USB port thinking it should work in her iMacBook since it came from a store with an Apple as a logo.
But seriously, the two companies aren't even in the same market. One is a personal computer company, the other is a god damn grocery store. They sell apples, apple is a very common fruit.
If you are paying $2million/year for the bandwidth of a small company that doesn't have a large web site and doesn't do digital distribution, you're overpaying by a whole lot.
It sounds like:
A. you're getting majorly ripped off
B. your company claiming to be spending $2m/year but in fact paying a lot less and pocketing the rest of the money
C. all the computers in your company are a zombies spamming 2 million emails per day and performing dos attacks
D. your employees are undercover couriers for 0day warez scene
E. you're an idiot who really doesn't know anything and you make up nonsense
I'm selling Doomsday Reverse Insurance: You sign up, I pay you $1000 today, and you owe me $10000 to be paid back on December 31st, 2012, unless the world ends before that, in which case you don't owe me anything.
I had a modded Wii and I was prolifically downloading Wii games for free from all kinds of pirate sites at Nintendo's expense. It all changed as soon as this patch came out, it suddenly turned me from being a dirty pirate to a legitimate customer! My pockets which had previously been devoid of anything other than pocket lint are now somehow filled with cash that just materialized out of thin air. I use that money to buy games legitimately, giving the company the profits it deserves. Their share prices have quadrupled in the past 3 hours. The company is worth more than Microsoft now. Hot Japanese anime girls are waiting to blow all of the company executives who came up with this wonderful anti-piracy patch that fixed everything.
This is what they've been waiting to hear... let's lie a little bit so they can feel good about wasting millions of dollars on this patch.
That doesn't make sense either. If I buy wholesale items from the manufacturer in bulk at a discount and then sell them individually at lower price than what the manufacturer would have charged for them individually, am I breaking any law?
Everyone has the right to buy things and sell things they bought. If Autodesk doesn't want Tim to sell this stuff, Autodesk shouldn't sell their stuff to Tim. Easy as that. But he paid good money, Autodesk took the money and in exchange gave him a product. He can turn around whenever he wants and sell it.
This is slashdot, not some dang medical school. We look at ONE aspect of something and dork around completely unaware that there are a thousand other things doctors learn in their 8 years of medical school that we haven't learned in our parents' basements.
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I think he was looking for a download that had just the emulator without the SDK. I don't think anyone has the emulator for any android without the SDK. Luckily, the SDK (which comes with the emulator) is FREE and it's only about 150MB.
It's very likely that Nintendo will use NVIDIA in their next generation handheld console. http://www.brightsideofnews.com/news/2009/10/13/nvidia-tegra-wins-contract-for-next-gen-nintendo-ds.aspx
But... it's too early for that. It think this 4" screen DSi is probably just that: DSi with a 4" screen. My dad and my uncle both like the DS (particularly chess and puzzle games on it) but they have trouble seeing the tiny things on the tiny screen, the larger screen would definitely help. They should call this the "Geezer Edition DSi".
Good luck putting 53kWh of energy into a battery in "a matter of minutes".
Technically, Lithium batteries can be charged to 80% capacity in only a half hour. The main reason for the Roadster's slow charging is that household plugs can't output more than 1800 Watts for a standard socket, at that rate it would take 30 hours to charge the Roadster.
If you wanted to charge it within 1 hour, you would need a 53000W power source, that's about 240Amps@220Volt, 480Amps@110Volts. Considering that the main circuit breaker to my house is rated 200Amps, I could never charge the Tesla at my house in 1 hour, even if it had super capacitors or whatever else you wanted.
If you want to charge it in "a matter of minutes", say 10 minutes, you would need a 318000Watt power source. If you wanted to charge your car in 3 minutes, you would need a megawatt power supply... for that you'd need a dedicated power station to supply this kind of power otherwise the whole city would have a brownout every time some prick decides to recharge his Tesla. I don't know about where you live, but there aren't dedicated electric stations that can supply a megawatt of power anywhere near my house.
So: batteries? supercapacitors? ultracapacitors? it doesn't matter the least bit if you don't have the power infrastructure to charge it.
Can you imagine what would happen if other markets went the way of OSS and FSF ideals? You'd get a few finished products and a lot of half-baked, half-finished products. You'll have to supply your own containers when shopping for soup at the market, and provide your botulism test because the kitchen hadn't gotten around to it yet. You go to buy a car, but someone decided to break with convention and try a new brake design. He's delivered the car in a .5 Alpha and makes a small note that the brake fluid/master cylinder/wheel interface isn't ready yet.
Yeah... I'm so glad everything in today's world is all finished products. The version of Windows is final, never needs patches or fixes. Since everything is so nicely tested cars never have recalls for things like spontaneous fires or fuel leaking. I am so glad when you go shopping you can be 100% confident that the meat you just bought has no harmful gut bacteria since the slaughterhouse would surely not chop open the intestines of the animal while butchering it. The industry does such a good of regulating itself behind closed doors that if we saw how well they operate internally we couldn't possibly find a single way of improving it, because the system that a dozen infallible geniuses think up is a billion times better than what you and I and a billion other people could ever devise.
</sarcasm>
Wake up! THE MAN is as fallible as anybody else. Just because it's open doesn't mean it's unfinished or half-baked.
Because making something shitty and marketing the hell out of it is more profitable than making something worthwhile.
It's the cost of the cell phone network. Obviously they couldn't get a cheap data plan in Europe so they have to disable things that use bandwidth and charge more for the necessary parts. There's no mystery here, there's no book tax, it's not the cost of converting from anything. It's just European cell phone companies rip off Amazon just because they can.
I'm going home to pirate a few crappy Disney films out of general spite.
That crap isn't worth the bandwidth nor the hard drive space it takes up.
Hey, that's exactly what I do. In HL2 near the beginning when you're in the lab, you can throw things around and play with the little desktop teleporter machine. And it actually works: you can put an object on one side and press the button, things spin and presto, the object is on side B. So I tried sitting on side A, and hit the button to see if it would teleport me... and poof, sparks came out of the machine and it started smoking. The teleportation machine broke.
Sure, they do a goob job integrating story and game, but they also make the room full of fun things to play with when you don't want to sit half an hour waiting for NPC's to finish yacking around for people with ADD like me.
There are other games that integrate the story into the game non-invasively, such as System Shock (1 and 2), where the story is told via notes/recordings made by the survivors.
What I can't stand though, is when I have an out of body experience during the game where the camera flies out of my body and I see my character myself other than through a mirror, and my character does things without my approval. It's absolutely the worst when my character starts to speak. I like how in HL,Doom etc the character never EVER utters a single word. I can't stand games where the character feels it necessary to comment on what's going on... like in Duke3D when Duke starts to blurt out things about how he's here to kick ass and chew gum and he's out of gum. I don't care if he's out of gum, I'm supposed to be him, why is he talking for me? That takes the immersion out completely and turns the game into a parody, I'm no longer me, no longer alone in the alien ship, instead some loud mouth jerk is here with me and I'm just a spectator because the character has a life of its own. It just ruins the game's atmosphere imho.
-- my 2 cents.
True, Doom wasn't true 3D, but it looked 3D enough to fool anyone who didn't know difference between polygon rendering and raycasting (most people), and at the time computers just weren't fast enough to render a 3D polygon world anyway, so they did the best they could on the technology they had.
But Doom was the first to bring that 3D look, with inertia, gun movement, enemies that turned on each other, lots of blood and gore, 2-4 player multiplayer deathmatch+coop over serial/modem/ipx, all of with user editable content. Each of those features had been around before one way or another, but never all of them together. Doom defined the FPS genre.
Yep...I got a G1, you can hear it, and you can even see it: the tiny little lens moves back and forth to adjust focal distance.
Nothing creates a shortage faster than the word "shortage".
Johnny Carson was joking about a toilet paper shortage on NBC's Tonight Show, and Johnny's simple joke about shortage indeed created a very real toilet paper shortage that lasted three weeks. fact
If a comedian can have that much impact, one can only imagine what would happen if a more reliable source like New York Times went around announcing there was a shortage.
people who switched are not going back to MS anytime soon
Not true, I used several PCs running MacOS at my friend's lab. The interface is nice and cute and Apple's PC hardware is very aesthetically pleasing, but that's just the looks, and overall it's just not vastly different despite your enthusiastic claims that it is. Same shit with different cloak. I didn't like it any more than XP, which I also dislike but at least it has less of a cult following comprised of hippies brainwashed with religious zealotry and bigotry.
I agree... people who know the real life implications of the difference between static friction and dynamic friction know how to get their car out of an uncontrollable slide back into control, avoiding an accident.
I've seen plenty of idiots who slam on gas/brake on icy road and send their automobile spinning/slipping/crashing and creating dangerous situation.
I completely agree, Apple has the advantage of having all of their hardware being the same, makes development easier, and users don't have to worry about different requirements. Other platforms like Android or Windows forces you think different, not a familiar concept in Apple land despite the fact that it's their main slogan.
program to display hello world in the font of the users choosing
oh... my... God! That's the app I've always wanted but I could never find! I'll pay you $500 for it!
Because fractional reserve banking itself is fraud, not much different than counterfeiting: it hurts us all and puts the profits in the hands of a few.
At some point in time someone somewhere said: "Gee, I wish I could lend out money I don't have and collect interest on money I don't have." and fractional reserve banking was born. It's all one big fraud.
Hey, why is that marked troll? He's right, if it's a fixed fine you might as well just say that government is going to tax each instance of lobbying the reviewers by $11000. If your overall profits exceeded the fine greatly, that's not a fine, that's just a tax on your profits. And that's assuming you get caught every time!
They sell fresh produce, it is only logical that they have some kind of fruit for their logo. It makes a lot more sense for company selling fruit to use fruit for logo as opposed to pc manufacturer using fruit for their logo. This reminds me of how Johnson&Johnson sued The American Red Cross for using the red cross symbol... that's RIGHT! The symbol of red cross on white background is a registered trademark so Johnson&Johnson sued The American Red Cross (the non-profit organization known for and named after a red cross) for using a red cross.
How long before some asshole trademarks the christian cross, the crescent moon and the star of David and sues everyone?
They don't want Apple users to get confused and buy groceries instead of computers. Last thing you need is an Apple trying to plug in a tomato into the USB port thinking it should work in her iMacBook since it came from a store with an Apple as a logo.
But seriously, the two companies aren't even in the same market. One is a personal computer company, the other is a god damn grocery store. They sell apples, apple is a very common fruit.
What about everyone else who has an apple in their logo? Is Apple Co. going to go after them too?
It's an apple!,omg another apple! and holy crap, another apple!. What about Fruit of the Loom? Apple Co going to sue them too?
If you are paying $2million/year for the bandwidth of a small company that doesn't have a large web site and doesn't do digital distribution, you're overpaying by a whole lot.
It sounds like:
A. you're getting majorly ripped off
B. your company claiming to be spending $2m/year but in fact paying a lot less and pocketing the rest of the money
C. all the computers in your company are a zombies spamming 2 million emails per day and performing dos attacks
D. your employees are undercover couriers for 0day warez scene
E. you're an idiot who really doesn't know anything and you make up nonsense
http://gigaom.com/2008/10/07/wholesale-internet-bandwidth-prices-keep-falling/
I'm selling Doomsday Reverse Insurance: You sign up, I pay you $1000 today, and you owe me $10000 to be paid back on December 31st, 2012, unless the world ends before that, in which case you don't owe me anything.
I had a modded Wii and I was prolifically downloading Wii games for free from all kinds of pirate sites at Nintendo's expense. It all changed as soon as this patch came out, it suddenly turned me from being a dirty pirate to a legitimate customer! My pockets which had previously been devoid of anything other than pocket lint are now somehow filled with cash that just materialized out of thin air. I use that money to buy games legitimately, giving the company the profits it deserves. Their share prices have quadrupled in the past 3 hours. The company is worth more than Microsoft now. Hot Japanese anime girls are waiting to blow all of the company executives who came up with this wonderful anti-piracy patch that fixed everything.
This is what they've been waiting to hear... let's lie a little bit so they can feel good about wasting millions of dollars on this patch.
That doesn't make sense either. If I buy wholesale items from the manufacturer in bulk at a discount and then sell them individually at lower price than what the manufacturer would have charged for them individually, am I breaking any law?
Everyone has the right to buy things and sell things they bought. If Autodesk doesn't want Tim to sell this stuff, Autodesk shouldn't sell their stuff to Tim. Easy as that. But he paid good money, Autodesk took the money and in exchange gave him a product. He can turn around whenever he wants and sell it.
This is slashdot, not some dang medical school. We look at ONE aspect of something and dork around completely unaware that there are a thousand other things doctors learn in their 8 years of medical school that we haven't learned in our parents' basements.
recent wars are unjustified.
There's never any justification for slaughtering your brethren or destroying property. There is no victory in war, only degrees of defeat.